U.S. Immigration Practice Lead Attorney

Core Profile

Regulatory Compliance & Arizona Bar Admission: Clean bar record, multi-state UPL awareness, and the discipline required to operate inside a regulated entity under live oversight.

Employment-Based Immigration Practice: Full-stack employment-based immigration command — direct, hands-on experience as named attorney of record across the U.S. employment-based visa system.

Practice Build & Operations: Track record of building or rebuilding a practice's operating layer from the ground up — case management configuration, intake design, exhibit and template libraries, service-level standards, paralegal supervision, engagement-letter protocols, and the fee structure that powers a fixed-fee professional services book.

Core Responsibilities & Scope of Work

ABS Audit & Redesignation Cycle: Lead the semiannual ABS audit response and the two-year redesignation review with the Arizona Supreme Court, working in close coordination with outside ethics counsel.

Multi-State UPL Compliance: Own the unauthorized-practice perimeter across jurisdictions that do not recognize Arizona's Rule 31.1 / ABS framework — most notably California, New York, and Illinois — and shape the firm's scope of representation accordingly.

Bar Admission & Licensure: Hold the Arizona bar at hire, qualify through Rule 34(f) reciprocity from a reciprocal jurisdiction within three to six months, or sit for the Arizona bar within twelve months of start; maintain admissions in any additional states required to serve the firm's client book.

Regulatory Horizon Scanning: Monitor U.S. immigration policy developments, USCIS and DOL rulemaking, and Arizona Supreme Court regulatory shifts affecting ABS entities; communicate material changes proactively to clients and internal stakeholders.

Nonimmigrant Visa Filings: Personally draft and file the full nonimmigrant stack — H-1B (cap, cap-exempt, transfers), L-1A and L-1B (including new-office and blanket), O-1A and O-1B, TN, and E-1/E-2/E-3 — as named attorney of record on every Form G-28.

Immigrant Lifecycle: Personally manage PERM end-to-end (prevailing wage through audit defense), I-140 across EB-1A/B/C and EB-2 NIW, EB-2 and EB-3, I-485 adjustment of status, and consular processing across the EU, APAC, and LATAM.

RFE, NOID & AAO Response: Author responses to Requests for Evidence, Notices of Intent to Deny, and Administrative Appeals Office filings; diagnose LCA defects and other procedural failures quickly and remediate without status interruption to the beneficiary.

M&A & Transactional Immigration: Lead the experience design for employee populations affected by corporate transactions — entity changes, counsel transitions, and cross-border deployment — preserving employment authorization and minimizing disruption to the workforce and the client relationship.

Case Management Platform: Select and configure the firm's case management platform (INSZoom or comparable), including intake templates, SLA dashboards, expiration tracking, and templates for repeat petition types across the nonimmigrant and immigrant stack.

Paralegal Supervision Model: Build the paralegal supervision model with the Houston Americas Hub team — paralegals run H-1B, standard L-1, and routine nonimmigrant work, while attorney time is reserved for O-1, NIW, PERM strategy, and procedural defense.

Engagement Mechanics & FP&A Partnership: Author engagement letters, define the fixed-fee economics of the practice, and partner with the firm's FP&A team on invoicing, utilization tracking, and proactive re-work risk identification.

Service-Level Discipline: Establish and uphold the firm's twenty-four-hour client response standard across APAC, LATAM, and EMEA time zones; build the workflow discipline that absorbs off-hours volume without service breach.

Warm-Pipeline Conversion: Convert Newland Chase global account work currently routed to outside referral firms into committed in-house U.S. business; the firm will hand the role warm mobility, HR, and in-house counsel buyers who already trust the brand outside the U.S.

Mid-Market New-Logo Hunting: Partner with the Chief Revenue Officer on activity-based selling into mid-market multinational employers; the Americas Co-Chairs, Regional Lead, and consulting team will open doors, and the attorney will close.

QBR & ABR Client Cadence: Run quarterly and annual business reviews with strategic accounts as a consultative partner — not a transactional ticket-taker — and engage corporate counsel, HR, and global mobility leaders as peers.

Three-Year Revenue Trajectory: Drive the U.S. book toward a $30–$60M three-year revenue target, with the captive Arizona ABS positioned as durable platform infrastructure rather than a one-time conversion event.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited U.S. law school, in good standing with all bar admissions and a clean disciplinary record.
• Eight or more years of post-bar experience in U.S. employment-based corporate immigration practice, with hands-on, named-attorney-of-record reps across both the nonimmigrant and immigrant categories of the employment-based system.
• Demonstrated experience serving multinational corporate clients at Fortune 500 / London Stock Exchange–tier scale, en